Thread: Help with John Mather Please.

Could I ask for some help with an ancestor, John Mather.



John Mather born c1860. He appears on the 1861 census aged 1, born Wolverhampton, Staffs. He then appears on the 1871 aged 11 born Birmingham Warwickshire, and then appears on the 1881 aged 22 born Wolverhampton Staffs.



I have tried without success to find a birth registration for him either in Staffordshire or Warwickshire, can anyone please advise me on where to look next.



Johns father also named John, and his grandfather named Ralph, both originated in Edinburgh, but John senior moved to the midlands where he appears on the 1861 census in Ann Street, Birmingham.



Thank you.



Brummie.

Hi Pejay.



Yes, I saw that one, but I think the poor little soul was a still-birth, I found this death reg;



Deaths Dec 1860

Mather. Male. Dudley 6c 62.



I'm fairly certain that the birth and the death are the same child but thank you for trying.



Brummie

Hi Pejay,



I don't think this will be the one. The 1861 Census for England was taken on the night of 31 March 1861. The 1871 census for England was taken on the night of 2 April 1871.



The child you mentioned would have been 6 months and 17 months at the most on these two censuses.